Women in Management Review: Volume 18 Issue 1/2

The provision of formal and informal work‐family practices: the relative importance of institutional and resource dependent explanations versus managerial explanations

E. Anne Bardoel

Examines the relative importance of institutional and resource dependent explanations versus managerial explanations of variations of formal and informal work‐family…

Work‐life policy: does it do exactly what it says on the tin?

Sarah Wise, Sue Bond

Policies which help employees balance their work and non‐work priorities have become increasingly popular among UK employers in recent years. Along with a legislative imperative…

Power dynamics in the long‐term development of employee‐friendly flexible working

Sadia Nadeem, Chris Hendry

This paper focuses on the possibilities of the long‐term development of flexible working as a work‐life policy, through understanding the power dynamics between the individual…

Gender and salaries in hotel financial management: it’s still a man’s world

Cathy Burgess

Research into the careers and salaries of financial controllers in the hospitality industry has shown continuing discrepancies between men and women. Analysis of the results of a…

Men and women engineers in a large industrial organization: interpretation of career progression based on subjective‐career experience

Maimunah Ismail

This paper explores the interpretation of career progression of a group of men and women engineers in a large industrial organization in Malaysia. Data were gathered through…

Recruiting for diversity

Cheryl Freeman

This paper describes some of the findings of an ongoing research study sponsored by a major UK graduate employer wishing to increase the number of job applications that it…

Gender asymmetries and the manager stereotype among management students

Emília Fernandes, Carlos Cabral‐Cardoso

In spite of the progress made in the last decades, women still face difficulties in being accepted and recognised as managers. The manager’s role has been perceived as masculine…

Gender, gender identity, and aspirations to top management

Gary N. Powell, D. Anthony Butterfield

Data gathered by the authors from undergraduate and part‐time graduate business students in 1976‐1977 suggested that men were more likely than women to aspire to top management…

Women, Medicine, Ethics and the Law

Suzanne Phibbs